MATERIAL

Tinplate can with black and colorless protective coating on the outside.

Inner lid with black plastic knob, colorless protective varnish on both sides.

Slip lid with viewing window, colourless protective varnish

Mass:

Can: height 55 mm, diameter 80 mm.

Template: diameter 77 mm with inner hole 17 mm

Can:

• The can is painted matt black and can be wiped clean like a blackboard with appropriate colored pencils.
• Or you can have your own labels printed on them.
• Any kind of decoration is possible. The tin can be covered with decorative stones or decorated with long-lasting paint.
• It can be covered with fabric, felt, leather or other materials.

Lid:

• The two matching lids invite you to create particularly beautiful designs. A template for tracing the inner lid is included.

BASIC INGREDIENTS

Savory: We recommend salt as a base for your spice mix, as it also ensures that your spices last longer and is an inexpensive basic ingredient. This is particularly suitable for spices for making butter in the butter shaker.

Sweet: Whole cane sugar is a great choice for sweet spices such as orange or vanilla sugar. Conventional refined sugar works too, of course. For sweetly spiced butter, homemade buttermilk is our culinary insider tip.

HERBS & SPICES

Herbs: You can also use herbs you have grown yourself from your windowsill or garden for your spice mixtures. Organic quality, i.e. unsprayed herbs, is ideal.

Additional flavors: Your spice mixes will also taste particularly great if you have dried and then ground ingredients such as lemon peel, porcini mushrooms, jalapenos & chili peppers, garlic and onions - to name just a few.

DRYING INGREDIENTS

Dehydrators are the first choice in our latitudes for drying ingredients with a high natural water content, such as chilies, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes and peppers. They are already available at reasonable prices.

Herbs can be air dried . Freshly harvested herbs are tied together at the stem and hung upside down in a dry, airy place to dry.

GRIND & MIX INGREDIENTS

Mortars, coffee grinders and blenders are suitable for grinding and mixing the ingredients, to name just a few methods.

Some food processors even have their own programs and recipes for making common spices yourself.

FOR INSPIRATION:

Ready-made spice blends as a model: For inspiration, we recommend ready-made spice blends that you particularly like. Take a close look at the list of ingredients and try to make something similar yourself. However, some are so good that it just won't work. The art of spice blending is full of sophistication.

The art of omitting and substituting: Discover what effect it has on the taste if you use more of one ingredient or another or replace ingredients with other spices.

A worldwide journey of discovery : The world of spices offers a great journey of discovery. Spices come from all over the world and enrich our cuisine.

Important: The quality of your ingredients is crucial, especially when it comes to spices.

Reference work: The website www.kraeuterabc.de offers a lot of carefully compiled and verified information about many herbs that can be used as spices.

Healing spices: The healing effects of the respective spices discussed on www.kraeuterabc.de are always interesting. If you pay attention to this when putting together your own spice recipes, you will kill two birds with one stone: your homemade butter with the homemade butter spice tastes delicious and is healthy.

Butter with a win-win effect: The so-called lipophilic active ingredients from the spices dissolve very well in butter. And the others, which are hydrophilic, end up in the homemade buttermilk. If you then add a dash of high-quality vegetable oil with the valuable omega fatty acids to this healing spiced butter (and buttermilk), you have a real fitness fat on your bread. It is important that the spices and the vegetable fat are added to the room-temperature cream in the butter shaker right at the start. Then it works particularly well.

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